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Cortana Edition: So you’ve disabled Cortana on Windows 10. I checked the task manager and it’s still running, even with all the options turned off. Here’s how to really turn it off: Open the task manager and find the Cortana icon. Open Explorer and navigate to C:\Windows\SystemApps Right click on the Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy folder and select […]

Windows 10 has adopted a rather novel way to distribute security updates. In the past, Windows Update was used and your system downloaded security patches from Microsoft’s servers and installed them automatically (if you had Windows configured to do so). Now, it seems that with Windows 10, Microsoft has decided to save a little cash […]

So since Microsoft has released Windows 10 into the wild, there have been a bunch of articles flying around about how Microsoft wants your personal data. To get this, there are a whole bunch of privacy settings which are turned “on” by default which allow Microsoft to, among many things, collect and store your personal […]